CDMX boasts water savings in four municipalities

The Government of Mexico City said it has recovered 50 to 395 liters per second of water in some neighborhoods of four of the 16 mayor’s offices. Rafael Carmona, head of the Water Secretariat of the CDMX (Sacmex), said during the press conference of the Head of Government, Claudia Sheinbaum, that these recovered flows are due to the beginning of operation in the sectorization network. Two years ago, Carmona presented the sectorization plan, that is, a plan to isolate the drinking water distribution network in 830 sectors, to record the volume of water distributed and locate leaks to reduce them. Then, the official assured that 2 thousand liters per second could be recovered and suspend the operation of 50 wells. On Tuesday, he listed some shares. In Álvaro Obregón, he said, 50 liters per second per flow have been recovered; in Benito Juárez, 70 liters per second; in Gustavo A. Madero, 395 liters per second; and in Tlalpan, 53 liters per second. Without offering figures, the official boasted improvements in the service of four other mayors: Iztacalco and Miguel Hidalgo.For Iztapalapa he said that the service has improved by 210 percent and on Venustiano Carranza he assured that there is less distribution through requested pipes, although he did not offer numbers either. Just in July of this year, Carlos Franco, in charge of the Drinking Water Service Efficiency Improvement Project, explained to REFORMA that it could not yet be determined how much water is recovered from leaks, because most of the sectors were still not operating.” Since October of last year, we have already worked on the start-up, because it is one thing to build them and another to put them to work, “said Franco.This Tuesday, Sheinbaum said that the figures presented by Carmona are based on measurements and accused that in previous administrations it was only calculated. We recommend you read: Although in the Capital it had been established that 40 percent of the drinking water supply is wasted in leaks, Carmona and Sheinbaum said today that this was only an earlier estimate. Carmona said 37 percent is what is actually wasted. Denies deputy assaulted in Tlalpan that SSC action was “for the safety of the protesters”

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